April 2013
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Festival Fun
This year, I will be venturing to my very first festival and I think I’m more excited to plan my wardrobe for the weekend than the music itself! Now I’m not a lover of camping or mud, so I decided my first furore into the festival world would be Manchester rave weekend Parklife. Held in the middle of the June, the weather can (hopefully) be relied on to be slightly sunny or at least...
January 2013
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GG 2013 - My Best Dressed - Isla Fisher
Now I’ve pretty much girl-crushed on my Golden Globes choices. All the ladies are gorgeous, confident and stylish, and are strong enough to choose pieces that will guarantee their place on the ‘Best Dressed’ list. Here is my last choice and I hope you have enjoyed these looks and are inspired to write about yours - rather than the ones you hate!
Isla, Isla, Isla....
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GG 2013 - My Best Dressed - Marion Cotillard
As someone who likes to blog about fashion, it sometimes takes me a while to find a topic I feel passionate enough to write about. Sometimes I just want to type up something silly or simply tell you about something I like. Don’t fret - this post IS a proper one. But seeing as we’re talking about the wonderful Miss Cotillard, I feel this is an appropriate time to sneak in a...
GG 2013 - My Best Dressed - Amy Adams
So there’s something I think I haven’t told you before; I’m a redhead. Now this may not seem like an important thing to tell you but as 2 out of the 4 ‘Best Dressed” I have chosen are flame-haired beauties, I felt I must disclose this so you can understand why I love them all the more.
Regardless of year, season or trends, a neutral palette is always chic....
GG 2013 - My Best Dressed - Kristen Bell
So I’ve seen quite a few comments and blog posts flitting their way around the world wide web with regards to the ‘Worst Dressed’ of this years’ Golden Globes. In the face of pessimism and negativity, I have decided to pick my favourites and tell you why I like them (from albeit, very slim pickings)!
So first off; Kristen Bell. Numerous celeb gossip sites pin...
New Season Too Soon?
Christmas has gone and the New Year is here which can only mean one thing; the dreaded January blues! The sales are rubbish and the money is spent, and we all sit around re-evaluating our lives, making promises and resolutions that the majority of us won’t keep. While us normal folk are going back to the dreary reality of work, a lucky few are beginning to out in motion a thing of wonder;...
July 2012
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Holiday Haute Couture
This year’s holiday has been long coming; so long coming that it’s still not even booked. My indecisive and cost-obsessed other half has prolonged the booking by months and months as he decides where we’re going to go and for how long, which I just decide what I’m going to wear. I’m the organised one out of the two of us, but his enthusiasm and effort for this has...
For Sale: Front Rowers?
Twice a year, we wait to see the seasonal fashion debuts of various designers, the colours and pieces that will inspire the next few months’ high street collections and those who attend which show. It is interesting to see those that sit together, the unlikely couplings of Paloma Faith and Anna Wintour, or the Olsen twins and Nicky Minaj as well as the friendships that blossom as a...
June 2012
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The Language of Fashion
As a avid fashion follower, there are many places that I wish to visit in my life that I see as capitals of the world that inhabit a great sense of style within its culture. I have been lucky to visit the two closest to me, London and Paris as well as being lucky to live in the eccentric city of Manchester. The streets of London are a picture of personalities, where every persons’...
The Power of Two
As I’ve mentioned before, Olivia Palermo is my style icon. She has an innate sense of style, and every outfit she wears looks effortlessly cool. She knows the power of a gorgeous heel or a lust-worthy clutch, and always has great make-up and soft curls to set the look off. However her most recent accessory that has been impressing the fashion critics is her gorgeous other half, Johannes...
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Vogue Talent Contest Article 3 - Invisible...
The first time I had heard of Joseph Kony and of the Invisible Children group was when I had logged on to twitter and seen that Kony 2012 was a trending topic. I clicked on to find out more and saw that Rihanna had shared a video and was urging others to watch. I clicked play and for the next 29 minutes I was engaged. From the beginning, I was deeply touched by Jason Russell’s relationship...
Vogue Talent Contest Article 2 - The New Age of...
Fashion has been a massive part of my life since I was a young girl without me ever really being conscious of it. My mother tells stories of me choosing my own (questionable!) outfits as a little girl as well as unique accessories- a prime example being that of my mother’s bridal bouquet. As I’ve gotten older, my love for fashion has become a real part of my life. When I was 16 and working...
Vogue Talent Contest Article 1 - The Things We...
I recently entered into this year’s Vogue Writing Contest and unfortunately did not make it through to the finalist stage. Now I feel like I can share my articles with everyone and be excited to enter again next year. They are not all fashion-based, but I hope you like all the same.
The funniest person I have ever known in my short 23 years upon this planet is, without a doubt, my...
May 2012
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Black Vs Colour
This summer is all about colours. Every single colour under the sun can be found out there on the high street or in the designer boutique, in lots of different shapes, sizes and forms. Sunshine yellow floaty dresses, candy-cotton pink striped shorts, mint green skinny jeans as well as pretty lilac boyfriend blazers. Shoes, clutches and scarves in every shade of the rainbow, as well as pretty...
Jubilee is the word
We have been very lucky these last few years to have had such great occasions that have allowed us to celebrate being British. For example, our securement of the Olympics which begin later this year, the beautiful Royal Wedding that happened just over a year ago and the momentous occurrence of the Queen’s Jubilee. June 2nd is the weekend that celebrates our beloved Queen Elizabeth’s...
April 2012
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Click the button
There has been an addition to my page, something you probably won’t even notice but if you did, you’d be transported to a new internet world. The Pinterest button. Introduced to Pinterest by my friend, it can only be described as a wonderfully visual place, an assortment of online pinboards. I am a firm believer in that idea that words can be powerful. They can wound, scar, repair...
Time To Get Brave
Last December I turned 23, an age that for myself was slightly painful, being an advocate of Peter Pan and his belief of never growing old. In many ways, I feel no different from how I was at 21, apart from that of my fashion choices. I am so much more careful of what I purchase now, doing things I swore I never would like checking washing instructions as well as only purchasing things I swear...
March 2012
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My New Staples
Every year I find myself purchasing summer staples, carefully considered and well thought out. Past years have included denim high-waisted shorts, floral maxi skirts, cowboy boots and the ill-fated cotton waistcoat. This year, though my bank balance is very low, my taste seems to have gone premium. As an avid collector of Vogue and Look magazines, I have spotted Sarah Jessica Parker (my...
Spring into Summer
When Christmas is over, New Years has gone and everyone is back at work, there is still one thing that can bring a smile to any fashionistas face…. Spring/Summer Fashion Week. Even though the temperatures are still cold and the de-icer is still in use, the sight of pastels and neon in dresses and skirts brings the excitement of summer and warms the cockles of our designer handbags. And...
November 2011
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Shoes, Shoes, Shoes
I have always been a great lover of beautiful footwear and the A/W collection of shoes in high street stores this year have only fuelled this love even further. Topshop’s velvet shoe-boots and glitter platforms are things of beauty that finish off simple outfits perfectly, as well as giving our poorly and battered feet a little bit of TLC. For many women (myself included) feet are a...
I heart Topshop Tumblr
Upon discovering Tumblr, I found a way to test if I have any coherent writing skills, if I do then a place where I can hone them and present them to people (all unknown, family and friends are forbidden from this site) in a stylish and designer way. After a few drafts of my first post, I had an experimental exploration of the site and found that I could follow bloggers, similar to the twitter...
October 2011
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Walking in a Winter Wonderland, in new boots
It is no secret that the British Winter has become more temperamental over the last 20 years, an effect of the ever so scary phenomenon of GLOBAL WARNING. This has meant massive issues for the ecological and environmental worlds, as well as states and governments, pushing them to find solutions that can halt the process. It has also affected us on the ground level, particularly us fashionistas...
Street Style Sartorialist
Being an avid reader of Vogue magazine since the age of 18, I have learned many new things relating to the world of fashion; names of important people, labels that are always chic and models that are always featured in the glossy ads that fill the first 20 or so pages. But the best thing I read about in Vogue was an article featuring Scott Shulman and his website, the Sartorialist. I was...
Olivia Palermo - My Icon
Olivia Palermo is, hands down, my style icon of this century, the last and the next. Her style has captured me ever since I watched my first episode of The City and continues to do so when she graces the style pages of every fashion...
